For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Oliver Balch

From the July 2023 Issue

Animal, Mineral, Pathogen

Fevered Planet: How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature

By John Vidal

From the March 2023 Issue

Where the Streets are Paved with Goldenrod

Urban Jungle: Wilding the City

By Ben Wilson

From the August 2022 Issue

Watching the Watchers

In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology

By Lucy Moore

From the November 2021 Issue

The Invention of Amazonia

From the June 2021 Issue

Journey to the End of the World

Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes

By Nick Hunt

From the February 2021 Issue

Where the Streets are Paved with Thulium

The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies

By Guillaume Pitron (Translated from French by Bianca Jacobsohn)

Wars of the Interior

By Joseph Zárate (Translated from Spanish by Annie McDermott)

From the November 2020 Issue

From the Mersey to Manaus

Brazil That Never Was

By A J Lees

From the April 2020 Issue

The Great Bean Counter

Coffeeland: A History

By Augustine Sedgewick

From the June 2019 Issue

Cabin Fever

Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

By Dan Richards

From the July 2018 Issue

Rise of the Bollygarchs

The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age

By James Crabtree

From the August 2017 Issue

Noonday’s Children

The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta

By Kushanava Choudhury

The End of Karma: Hope and Fury among India’s Young

By Somini Sengupta

From the June 2017 Issue

Into the Deep

Turning: A Swimming Memoir

By Jessica J Lee

Floating: A Life Regained

By Joe Minihane

From the August 2016 Issue

Going the Extra Mile

Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human

By Vybarr Cregan-Reid